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Bram Stoker, despite having a name nearly as famous as his legendary undead count, has remained a puzzling enigma. Now, in this psychological and cultural portrait, David J. Skal exhumes the inner world and strange genius of the writer who conjured an undying cultural icon.

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Fascinating portrait of author and his world

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What a fascinating book this is, packed with details I'd not previously read, not to mention the way it pulls together a number of strings, such as the complicated relationship between Stoker and Oscar Wilde into a vivid portrait, as well as a series of, to date, unanswerable questions.

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